In a move to ease many householders' pain before appearing in court to justify the unjustifiable ‘bed tax’ it added to water customers bills, water company Infralobo quietly has reduced its charges.

The water services company, majority owned by Loulé council, previously has ignored a directive from the water regulator that its bedroom tax is at best highly suspect and that it should be suspended prior to the courts deciding for what the company can, and can not, charge.

The coast of Scotland is set to host the world’s largest floating wind farm.

Statoil, the Norwegian energy company developing the farm, were granted a seabed lease on Monday by the Crown Estate.

The head of the Algarve Tourism Board, the former Albufeira mayor Desidério Silva has been appointed as the president of the National Association of Tourism.

Silva was elected by unanimous vote to chair the board of the National Association of Tourism - it is not known who else was on the list of candidates.

Lagos council have taken the opportunity of good weather and an expected record number of tourists, to dig up the city centre.

Streets within the city walls of Lagos are being closed off for work as part of a slow moving plan that started in 2014 aimed at "improving the accessibility conditions in the intramural area."

The price of salmon is likely to go up in the near future because of bad weather and disease, according to retail analysts.

Already some 123,000 tonnes of farmed salmon have been killed in Chile by an attack of toxic algae. The algae have flourished due to abnormally high ocean temperatures fuelled by this year’s El Niño.

The Government estimates that 36,000 Portuguese owe the Social Security department money so has decided to reintroduce an openly available debtors list with a June start date.

The measure is part of yet another new plan to combat fraud and ‘contributory evasion,’ and the government expects to rake in €200 million from individuals and businesses that have been unable or unwilling to get their payments up-to-date.

Madeleine Lebeau is best known for the emotionally charged final scene in Casablanca where she shouts 'Vive la France!'

In 1988 Lebeau married Oscar-nominated Italian screenwriter Tullio Pinelli whom died in 2009.

Representatives from consuls and police forces from the UK, France, Germany, Brazil, Norway, Netherlands, Romania and Luxembourg have met the Algarve's regional police commad team in Faro to "prepare for a safe summer."

"The meeting aimed to strengthen relations between the Algarve's PSP police force and representatives of many of the countries from which visitors come to the Algarve, in order better to respond to the needs they may have during their stay in our country," said the PSP chief.